Archive for June, 2007

Tiny Dancer

Friday, June 29th, 2007

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tiny Dancer, originally uploaded by markandmandy. We put on some ballerina shoes today and had a little dance off – Elsie won! She loves the Beatles just like her grammie (the early stuff, not [...]

Birthday Wishes

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Today is heather’s birthday so we wanted to send some birthday cheer! First get all dressed up in your birthday pinks … Have dad put a sign on you since you haven’t mastered the art of Sign Spinning … and SMILE!! (at dad, not the big thing that always flashes you – this is our [...]

Grass is ticklish

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

We have been having some hot, hot, hot weather lately – it hit 100 degrees yesterday. We thought a walk through some cool grass might be fun for the bean. First she enjoyed the hot concrete … Curled up little feet aren’t quite ready to touch the grass … Ok feet down … still a [...]

BUMBO!!

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Who says babies can’t sit up! This cool bumbo chair is holds the little bean up in the perfect sitting position. She is still skeptical but when I told her all the big kids were doing it – she was in!

Father’s Day

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

For Fathers day we had the Richau crew over for Brunch. We made crepes – when I say we I mean mostly my dad and mark (and my mom too). Elsie got mark a new shirt (she’s already able to use a credit card) and here he is looking so cute (and clearly too busy [...]

Elsie meets the billings crew…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Shelley, Heather and Lisa threw a meet and greet for Elsie while we were in Billings. Here are a few shots of the fun: the four generations – Ruby, Pam, Mandy and Elsie Carol, Karen, Shelley and Me: Heather and Robb: (more photos here) We also learned a new game called Cornhole! the object of [...]

Riley-palooza

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

This weekend we traveled up Montana for fathers day, an Elsie meet and greet and Riley’s 4th birthday. Heather is the ultimate entertainer so this event is known as Riley-palooza throughout Billings. This years theme was Pirates and there were 25 kids and lots of parents (heather has lots of adult drinks including a keg [...]

Shots are yucky!

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Today was elsie’s 8 week doctor visit (she will be 9 weeks tomorrow) and it was the dreaded vaccination day. Mark conveniently went to California to avoid any association to the shots. As usual Elsie loved having her clothes off and kicking on the table – you may remember her past visit poses: She is [...]

Working hard with dad

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Working hard with dad, originally uploaded by markandmandy. who says you need a nanny?

Google Me

Monday, June 11th, 2007

We went to the google picnic on friday and Elsie wanted to fit in … We only stayed a bit, enough time for some pulled pork sandwiches and a beer – and time to introduce Elsie to the googlers. Lola wearing the google swag…

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